Author: Barbara W. EllisPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618068906
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Offers advice on how to grow bulbs and describes the characteristics of more than 400 bulb plants.
Taylor's Guide to Bulbs
Author: Barbara W. EllisPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618068906
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Offers advice on how to grow bulbs and describes the characteristics of more than 400 bulb plants.
Gardener's Chronicle of America
Author: The Complete Gardener's Guide
Author: DKPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0756689422
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Complete Gardener's Guide is a new, one-stop manual for both beginner and more experienced gardeners, containing all the practical techniques, inspirational ideas, and problem-solving advice you need to make and maintain a garden of any size. This bright new manual focuses on the skills you need as your garden develops, from basic techniques and simple tools to get started, to planning and design to help you create the garden you want. Beautiful photographs illustrate attractive, achievable planting designs and effects for outdoor spaces of every shape and size.
National Horticultural Magazine
Author: Great Fruit & Vegetable Guide
Author: DKPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 075669163X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
With DK's Great Fruit & Vegetable Guide, the work of choosing the best plant varieties is done for you. DK's experts have selected the cream of each crop to give you an easy choice between a tempting but manageable selection of star performers. For each of the 125 featured fruits or vegetables, there is a fully illustrated selection of recommended cultivars, combining classic heritage types with deservedly popular modern varieties. Detailed catalog entries, illustrated with enticing pictures, describe each cultivar's proven qualities. Relevant growing information is flagged with clear symbols. Points such as delicious flavor, disease-resistance, reliability of cropping, storage life, or culinary versatility, as well as season of crop, pollination data, and sowing depths are covered in full. You will find simple, step-by-step photography and friendly tips and pointers on matters such as sowing and planting, pest and disease control, supports and shelters, as well as planning, crop rotation, and making compost. Vegetable crop planners help the gardener plan which cultivar to sow when.
Country Life
Author: Bulletin
Author: American Dahlia SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dahlias
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
The Country Gentleman
Author: Garden
Author: Fruit and Vegetable Gardening
Author: DKPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1465406182
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Now in PDF! The unstoppable trend for productive gardening continues-and, to catch the wave, this comprehensive and practical guide to growing your own fruit, vegetables, and herbs will be indispensable for any gardener. Fruit and Vegetable Gardening will quickly become a trusted reference for gardeners at all levels of expertise. It offers all the basics of kitchen gardening-planning, soil preparation, organic manures-and authoritative advice on every aspect of productive growing. A total of 150 individual crops are covered in detail with recommendations for the best cultivars. There is also information on how much your crops will yield; sowing and harvesting times; and which pests and diseases are the biggest threats to your crops and advice on how to deal with them. Whether you have a kitchen garden, a spot in a community garden, a small vegetable patch, or just a collection of pots and window boxes, this is an essential handbook for growing your own.